Black Activist Criticizes Nagin’s Convoluted Comments to Senate Committee
Calling his testimony a "smokescreen" to cover up his own failings at the outset of the Hurricane Katrina crisis, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are criticizing the racially-charged rhetoric of New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin (D) before the Senate Homeland and Government Affairs Committee yesterday. "Mayor Nagin ...
Enron’s Green-Fingered Successors
I won't let the week end without a fisking of the Washington Post's silly global warming op-ed Monday by in-house writer Sebastian Mallaby. Mallaby says: "While the White House was sorting out its message, the rest of Washington was busy. Over at the Reagan building, a conference on carbon trading ...
Los Angeles Times Runs Kitty Kelley Op-Ed Blasting Bush Family Without Fact-Checking
The Los Angeles Times and Harper's have a bit of egg on their faces. The Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed by Kitty Kelley last week claiming that no one in George W. Bush's extended family -- daughers, neices or nephews -- has served in the military since his father's ...
If You Think the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Presents Objective Science…
read this. Labels: Climate, Environment ...
Social Security: A Quick Definition
Willisms describes our current Social Security system: The government confiscates your money, keeps it for decades, gives you back a terrible return on your money, then taxes you for the privilege. (Until the system goes bankrupt, that is.) Labels: Social Security ...
Global Cooling Again
If you follow global warming debates, you've heard how environmentalists and their media allies predicted global cooling in the 1970s, only to reverse course in the 1980s. Well, everything old is new again. Russian scientists are now predicting global cooling, to start about 2055 and last a half century or ...
Environmentalism versus Poor (Again)
The current pro-ethanol fad in the United States apparently is a factor in making poor Mexicans cut back on corn tortillas, a dietary staple, says a January 27 Washington Post article by Manuel Roig-Franzia: Thick, doughy tortillas roll hot off the conveyor belt all day at Aurora Rosales's little shop ...
Like Welfare Queens of Yore
Another big business wants a handout from taxpayers: The owner of the Washington Wizards has asked the District for $50 million to renovate Verizon Center, and city officials are discussing whether to honor the request and pay for it with a tax increase on tickets, officials said yesterday. Wizards owner ...
Blacks Say Bush Blows Opportunity to Fight for Judges
President George W. Bush mentioned the importance of filling vacancies in our judicial system with qualified nominees, but he failed to use his State of the Union Address to discuss the problem of liberal obstructionism of these nominees in the Senate. Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie says President Bush should ...
Paul Krugman: Master Spinner
The National Center's health policy analyst, David Hogberg, is impressed by Paul Krugman -- by Krugman's mastery of spin, that is. Here's David's look at the way Krugman is covering some of President Bush's recent statements on health care reform: I have to admire Paul Krugman's ability to deceive with ...
How About Disclosing Conflicts of Interest?
I notice that Senator Barbara Boxer's press release, reprinted below, does not include a conflict of interest disclosure by the businesses that signed this agreement, detailing their financial interest in passage of the legislation: Boxer Hails Landmark Agreement By Industry, Environmental Groups Calling for Immediate Action to Address Global WarmingJanuary ...
Far Be It for Me to Disagree with Jim Webb…
...but when he says "the settlement of Jamestown... marked the first step in the long journey that has made us the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth," he's forgetting that the first European settlement in what would become the USA was in Florida ...
On the State of the Union
We issued a couple of press releases on the President's State of the Union speech tonight. This one gives thumbs up to the President's health care proposals, while this one gives thumbs down to the President's call for increasing fuel economy standards ...
Citing Safety Concerns, National Center for Public Policy Research Calls on President Bush to Reconsider his Call to Increase Fuel Economy Standards
Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research calls on President Bush to reconsider his call for an increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, as he apparently called for in his State of the Union address. In his State of the Union address, President Bush ...
‘The Big Ripoff’ Comes To Health Insurance
After seeing the Washington Post's "Universal Health Coverage Attracts New Support; Onetime Foes Become Unlikely Advocates, Citing Rising Costs and Tougher Access" by Christopher Lee in Monday's Washington Post, I asked the National Center for Public Policy Research's health care guru, David Hogberg, to critique the Post's story for publication ...
National Center for Public Policy Research Applauds President Bush’s State of the Union Health Care Proposal
Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research applauds President Bush's State of the Union proposal to change the tax treatment of health insurance. Under current law, only employers receive a tax deduction for providing health insurance to their employees, and the deduction is unlimited. President Bush's proposal ...
On Government Health Care: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Our David Hogberg has reviewed a New York Times column on universal health care and -- surprise -- found it wanting. An excerpt: [Paul Krugman says], Some say that we can't afford universal health care, even though every year lack of insurance plunges millions of Americans into severe financial distress ...
Black Activists Outraged Over Liberal Merger of Abortion and Civil Rights
Inclusion of Planned Parenthood in a self-described civil rights coalition has outraged members of the black leadership network Project 21, as Planned Parenthood advocates and provides abortions - particularly in the black community. "How can a civil rights group that claims to support underprivileged blacks embrace an organization created expressly ...
2009-2017: Number of Social Security Recipients to Grow Five Times Faster than the Number of Workers
Willisms says: "From 2009-2017, the number of retirees receiving Social Security will grow by 23.9%, the number of workers by only 4.3%. In other words, the number of retirees will grow more than five times faster than the worker population." Go here for his post, which has eight more facts ...
The Committee on World Travel and Junkets
I had been planning to post on Rep. John Dingell's response to the creation of a new House committee on global warming, but Pat Cleary did it so well, I'll just recommend his post ...
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